Maryland Electronic Voting System beset with problems

[LynneSin]

Man, you do not want to hear there are problems in Baltimore and Montgomery county (DC Suburbs). Those two counties are some of the more populous in the state and higher percentage of African-Americans & other minorities.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/elections/bal-te.md.voting13sep13,0,72696.story?coll=bal-home-headlines

Electronic system beset by problems
Balloting glitches frustrate voters
By Timothy B. Wheeler and Melissa Harris
Sun reporters
Originally published September 13, 2006

Maryland's first statewide run of an all-electronic voting system stumbled out of the gate yesterday, with major glitches in Baltimore City and Montgomery County that frustrated thousands of would-be voters and forced election officials in those two localities to hold polls open an extra hour.

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Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. wasted no time after learning that voters in two of the state's largest jurisdictions were having trouble voting before setting up a toll-free hot line in his office so he could compile complaints.

"We're going to demand answers," he said.

The Maryland Democratic Party and its nominee for governor, Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley, instead laid the blame at the feet of Ehrlich's nominees to boards of election around the state who manage elections county-by-county.

"We rely on our governor to make sure elections are administered in an orderly way," O'Malley said.

Other Democrats were even less subtle in faulting Ehrlich.

"He can't run an election just like he can't run the state," Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, who lost to Ehrlich in 2002, told a reporter from WMAR-TV while leaving her polling place in Baltimore County.

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In Baltimore, voters turning out early found locked doors and absent workers at polling places from Highlandtown to Mount Washington. Those workers who did report for duty on time struggled with a balky new electronic voter list, which at times erroneously declared a voter had already cast a ballot.

[tom_paine]

1. Notice how the "major glitches" occur in Democratic Areas

Gitches, my ass. My guess is that Ehrlich ran the election exaclty as he wanted it run. As a dry run for the stealing of 2006 and 2008 in Maryland.

[LynneSin]

3. I'll tell you this much, I was going to volunteer election day in Philly

Philly is bad, but I think Baltimore will be much worse. And I could just as easily work in either city. I think Baltimore needs me more

[formernaderite]

4. as much as I'd love to blame 'Ehrlich...we've had these machines

since Glendenning...in fact it was the democrats that switched them over from the punch cards, these are also completely democratically contolled counties. Also Montgomery county does not have a high minority black population...Baltimore city does, and so does Prince georges county. Montgomery county is thankfully a liberal bastion...

[Broadslidin]

2. Bolstering The World View: Corporate Control Of A Farcical democracy.

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